Why Weblogs (and the news in general) Suck
How to make a warblog/weblog/news site:
- Pick a topic, theme, or point-of-view
- Selectively choose news items that conform to #1
- Deride and dismiss any information contrary to #1
- Link extensively to sites of similar bias to show support for #1
- Lather, rinse, repeat…
Why can’t we be unbiased? Is this human brain fundamentally incapable of such a thing? Does the act of ingesting information through our brains inherently change the substance of that information? Irrevocably coloring it with preconceptions?
I just get so tired of reading one-sided diatribes praising the true-believers and deriding the dissenters. Even the “big” news guys do it, though they’re more circumspect about it.
I’m tired of the chest pounding and the smug self-rightousness.